Renee DiResta on her experiment:
For each of the fifty states and DC, I asked Google: “Why is [State] so ” and let it autocomplete. It seemed like an ideal question to get at popular assumptions, since “Why is [State] so X?” presupposes that X is true.
Maryland = expensive, ghetto, humid, and boring.
Whether it’s by stinging, crushing, biting, butting, kicking, or any other variety of accidental or nefarious means, animals injure millions and kill hundreds of people every year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps a database of the fatalities. Dr. Joseph Forrester and colleagues pulled all of the agency’s statistics from 1999 to 2007, organized and analyzed what they found, and then wrote a paper …
According to the data analysis moo-moos are among the list of the most dangerous animals.
You will find here one of the most complete list on the web about cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles seen in movies, image captures and information about them.
If you want to find out what movies your favorite vehicle has appeared in you can sort by make and model. For example, the Jeep Wagoneer, one of my favorites, was in a lot more movies than I expected. (via a very short list)
If you live in Phoenix, you better watch your ass come high Noon. And what the heck goes on at 3pm in Charlotte that would cause such a dip in crime? Do the strip clubs open or something?
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal published some of his iPhone tracking data. I could see this becoming a really awesome Feltronian life tracking application. I want to see a years worth of my travels plotted on a map. Daily commutes, road trips, and vacations all sprouting from a central location like the tentacles of an octopus. No check-ins needed.
In the past 15 years, the Davenport, Wash.-based National UFO Reporting Center has collected more than 30,000 reports of UFO sightings through its hotline and Web site. The following three maps visualize that rich history.
I like the map that shows “sightings per capita in every county.” We only got 4 sightings per 100,000 in my hood, I was hoping for more.
It’s called Soda. Pop is for suckers. /via
As for the interests of white women, you have romance novels, some country music, and a broad selection of Good Housekeeping type stuff. It’s also amazing the extent to which their list shows a pastoral or rural self-mythology: bonfires, boating, horseback riding, thunderstorms. I remind you that OkCupid’s user base is almost all in large cities, where to one degree or another, if you find yourself doing much of any of these things, civilization has come to an end.
Data Set #1 from singstatistics. This data refers to the book We Are The Friction.
The book paired writers with illustrators, both established and emerging in their disciplines. Each then produced new work inspired by the work of their partner: stories from illustrations, and illustrations from stories. The result is an erratic, eclectic collection of work that takes in space travel, Japanese deities, monster husbandry, and the Marx Brothers.Sounds awesome!
Source: Flickr / singstatistics
Visualizing what the cool kids are yakking about on the internets has never been so neat.
